So I was all set in writing a clever post comparing the current Richmond Mayoral race to the Wire Season 4…You know, Doug Wilder as Royce Clayton, Dwight Jones as Councilman Gray, the Preachers as the Preachers, and….Paul Goldman as Carcetti…nahh, the metaphor starts to get pretty weak there (one could argue Tim Kaine was Carcetti). What about Dirtwoman as Carcetti?** 
Actually, laugh all you want, but I think the Dirtwoman might play a major role in the 2008 election. Sometimes politics is stranger than fiction. When you watched the movie Predator, did you ever think in a million years there were TWO future governors on screen?? I think of Dirtwoman as more a “Ralph Nader” character in this political drama. S/he will get a tremendous amount of free publicity more than all of the candidates combined (the Elliot in the Morning exposure alone). For example, compare the amount of blog chatter (I’m doing it right now) between DW and Lawrence Williams…Who’s Lawrence Williams? Exactly.
Right now, the Richmond electorate is really pissed off at City Hall. You can see it in the blogs, letters to the editor, talk radio, etc…Dirtwoman, the candidate, might crystallize into the ultimate “protest vote.” Not enough, mind you, to win, but enough to edge out one candidate over another. Donnie Corker will be a kingmaker come November.
**Going back to the Wire…Who would be Richmond’s Nerese? “Downtown” Clay Davis? Norman?
***RVAMagazine’s graphic design of “Dirtwoman for Mayor” is brilliant. It’s a legitimate piece of modern art, if you ask me. They need to sell limited edition lithographs of that…